[dwfieldjr]

How do you guys keep a mood journal? I'm trying to start one.

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[Blue_Bird]

I keep a journal, not to track my mood specifically but a lot of the entries have to do with how I'm feeling. Maybe you could just jot down a descriptive word like "anxious, depressed, Happy" and rate your mood on a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being no problems at all and 10 being possible hospitalization needed

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[Frankbtl]

Hi dwfieldjr,

Good idea looking for suggestions here, because I'd say it needs to be personalised to yourself and whatever you may be struggling with, so the more ideas the better.........
So just some thoughts..........
It may help to track your moods by having a chart e.g.
You can title it with a range of different feelings and tick the boxes below each day or twice a day to list the emotions you've been feeling, that way you might find some more prevalent than you realised.
You could take specific feelings and score 0-10 on F (frequency), I (intensity), D (duration) for the day. It might or might not help totaling them up as well as a comparison over the days,
You could write down all the ways you've been feeling at set or important times during the day listing any possible triggers for those feelings.
If it's difficult to track/measure your mood you might as well list some key "behaviours" as a better reference, such as you may know that, for you, restless sleeping, forgetfulness, lack of appetite..........might mean that anxiety.....or depression.......or...........is worsening, so score or tick boxes for those kinds of things.
If there are specific moods you want to monitor maybe you could get/adapt a list of possible signs and symptoms and tick all the relevant ones off each day as a comparison.
So..........just some thoughts.........



Alison